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14-letter words containing s, w, a, t

  • elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
  • follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
  • freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • game show host — a broadcaster who reads the questions or conducts a game show
  • go on the swag — to become a tramp
  • graveyard stew — milk toast.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • hardware store — shop selling DIY or home-improvement supplies
  • hawaiian shirt — a short-sleeved, loose-fitting, open-collar shirt originally worn in Hawaii, made of lightweight fabric printed in colorful, often bold designs of flowers, leaves, birds, beaches, etc.
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • indian-wrestle — to engage in Indian wrestling: to Indian-wrestle for the city championship.
  • isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
  • just/you watch — You say to someone 'you watch' or 'just watch' when you are predicting that something will happen, and you are very confident that it will happen as you say.
  • kawartha lakes — a group of lakes in S Ontario, Canada, on the Trent Canal system.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
  • law of nations — international law.
  • lay waste (to) — to destroy; devastate; make desolate
  • leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
  • low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
  • master aircrew — a warrant rank in the Royal Air Force, equal to but before a warrant officer
  • master workman — a worker in charge.
  • maxis software — The developers of SimCity and SimCity 2000. Address: 2 Theatre Square, Suite 230, Orinda, CA 94563-3346, USA. Telephone: +1 (800) 33-MAXIS.
  • maxwell montes — a compact mountain range on Ishtar Terra, one of the regions of highest elevation on Venus.
  • mustard powder — Mustard powder is a yellow powder. You add hot water to it in order to make mustard.
  • nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
  • new australian — an immigrant to Australia, esp one whose native tongue is not English
  • new haven stem — a straight stem for flatbottomed boats in which the ends of the side planking are mitered and covered with a sheet of metal, the stem piece being wholly inside.
  • new jersey tea — a North American shrub, Ceanothus americanus, of the buckthorn family, the leaves of which were used as a substitute for tea during the American Revolution.
  • new york state — New York (def 1).
  • news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
  • news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
  • northeastwards — northeastward.
  • northwestwards — northwestward.
  • norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
  • one-way street — If you describe an agreement or a relationship as a one-way street, you mean that only one of the sides in the agreement or relationship is offering something or is benefitting from it.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • parents-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
  • persian walnut — English walnut.
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